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Last Will and Testiment: Call and Response
Last Will and Testiment: Call and Response Evelyn Bethune 9780997154801 Nonfiction Bethune Group Bethune Group Mary McLeod Bethune wrote a piece of literature called My Last Will and Testament. This b...
Call and Response: The Story of Black Lives Matter
Call and Response: The Story of Black Lives Matter Veronica Chambers 9780358573418 Nonfiction Versify Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call and Response: The Story of Black Lives Matter is a broad and powerf...
A Celebration of Literature and Response: Children, Books, and Teachers in K-8 Classrooms (2nd Edition)
A Celebration of Literature and Response: Children, Books, and Teachers in K-8 Classrooms (2nd Edition) Marjorie R. Hancock 9780131109025 Nonfiction Prentice Hall Press Prentice Hall Press Reinforced...
Call and Response: 10 Leadership Lessons from the Black Church
Call and Response: 10 Leadership Lessons from the Black Church L. Michelle Smith 9780063425934 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins A captivating exploration of why many high-performing Black business lea...
Call & Response Books
Call & Response Books Chicago IL Call & Response is a Black woman-owned bookstore focused on fostering a love of reading, community, human connections, and the sharing of ideas across cultures and bac...
The Last Poets: Still On a Mission
The Last Poets: Still On a Mission DuEwa M. Frazier Article Before hip hop pioneers like the Sugar Hill Gang, Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel or Run DMC, there was The Last Poets. Called the "...
A Call To Conscience
A Call To Conscience Thumper Book Review A Call To Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr is an excellent book that should serve as a wonderful introduction to the writing...
The Last King
The Last King Thumper Book Review Now is a time of rejoicing. Nichelle Tramble has finally released her much anticipated second novel, The Last King: A Maceo Redfield novel. I have been...
The Last Last-Day-of-Summer
The Last Last-Day-of-Summer Vanessa Vanzie Book Review A combination of fun, friends and awesome adventures make for a summer vacation that you never want to end. The Legendary Alston boys are no exc...
The Last Poets
The Last Poets 0000000109403584 The Last Poets, formed in 1969, are influential street poets who gained fame with their debut LP in 1970, reaching the U.S. Top 10 album charts. Members include Abiodu...
She Who Knows
She Who Knows Nnedi Okorafor 9780756419998 Fiction Daw Books Astra Publishing House Part science fiction, part fantasy, and entirely infused with West African culture and spirituality, this novella of...
Mourning Katrina, A Poetic Response to Tragedy
Mourning Katrina, A Poetic Response to Tragedy Angela Y. Davis 9780980007787 Poetry Mariner Companies Mariner Companies The Mourning Katrina National Writing Project helped survivors deal with the emo...
Last Call for a Deadly Diva
Last Call for a Deadly Diva Flo Anthony 9781954161665 Fiction Wahida Clark Presents Publishing Green and Company LLC Five years ago Valerie Rollins became a widow after her husband, electronics and ra...
The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade
The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade Hannah Durkin 9780063072992 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot’s The ...
The Last Last-Day-of-Summer
The Last Last-Day-of-Summer Lamar Giles 9781328460837 Fiction Versify Houghton Mifflin Harcourt "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer reminds me that all children deserve to exist in magical spaces where their...
The Last Holiday: A Memoir
The Last Holiday: A Memoir Gil Scott-Heron 9780802120571 Nonfiction Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. The stunning memoir of Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner Gil Scott-Heron, The Last Holiday h...
Booty Call *69
Booty Call *69 Erick S. Gray 9780975945346 Fiction Augustus Publishing Augustus Publishing Taking urban erotica to dizzying heights and culminating in an earth-shattering climax, Erick S Gray spins a ...
The Call of God: Since I Have Been Called to Preach, Now What?
The Call of God: Since I Have Been Called to Preach, Now What? Jeff Edwards 9781562294069 Nonfiction Pneuma Life Publishing Pneuma Life Publishing Many are confused about their call to the ministry. S...
Call Me Freedom: A Black American Woman Breaks from Empire
Call Me Freedom: A Black American Woman Breaks from Empire Tasha Keeble 9781952427275 Nonfiction Bronzeville Books Bronzeville Books Tasha Keeble’s memoir, Call Me Freedom, A Black American Woman Brea...
Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster
Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster Michael Eric Dyson 9780465017614 Nonfiction Basic Civitas Books Perseus Books When Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans and t...
A New Beginning
A New Beginning Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella 9781845234249 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press When Speak from Here to There was published in 2016 it was, remarkably, doing something quite new...
Last Chance Dance
Last Chance Dance Lakita Wilson 9780593525616 Fiction Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House An utterly charming YA romance perfect for fans of Elise Bryant and Leah Johnson. "An ode t...
Serious Problems With Facebook Promotion
Serious Problems With Facebook Promotion Troy Johnson Article Writers, if you are using Facebook to promote your work—especially paid promotion— invest 30 minutes of your time to watch these two vide...
I Love My People
I Love My People Robert Fleming Book Review Lovingly crafted with an eye for substance and content, scholar Kim Singleton was determined with her new book, I Love My People. As a “race woman,&r...
Black Girl, Call Home
Black Girl, Call Home Jasmine Mans 9780593197141 Poetry Berkley Books Penguin Random House From spoken word poet Jasmine Mans comes an unforgettable poetry collection about race, feminism, and queer i...
Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems
Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems Danez Smith 9781555977856 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith―“Hallelujah is an understatement” (Patricia Smith)Award...
Role Call
Role Call Rondall Brasher Book Review I encounter many literary anthologies that try to appease my appetite for new talent. But most of them fall short of their mark, and few of these collections ar...
On Call
On Call Miguel Algarin 9780934770033 Poetry Arte Público Press Arte Público Press A book of poems on the cutting edge of cultural innovation. On Call is the model of Algarín’s esthetics;...
Confessions of a Call Girl
Confessions of a Call Girl Kam Williams confes55.jpg Film Review Tamala Jones Plays Conflicted Title Character in Kinky Blaxploitation Flick Confessions of a Call Girl Click to ...
Final Call Foundation
Final Call Foundation Final Call Foundation Nation of Islam
Stephannie Solomon
Stephannie Solomon NONE Stephannie Solomon, a Baltimore native and devout Christian, is a minister, author, educator, and founder of Conversations With The King Ministries. Her work spans from local ...
Jim Crow’s Last Stand (Paperback): Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts in Louisiana
Jim Crow’s Last Stand (Paperback): Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts in Louisiana Thomas Aiello 9780807172377 Nonfiction LSU Press Louisiana State University Press A remnant of the racist post-Recon...
We’re Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy
We’re Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy Elijah E. Cummings 9780062992260 Nonfiction Harper HarperCollins Baltimore Congressman Elijah Cummings was known for saying “We’re bett...
Last Man Standing
Last Man Standing Thumper Book Review The year, 2002, I decided to take Black History Month literally by reading books that expanded my scope of being black in America. I decided to read Last Man Sta...
The Last Kings 2
The Last Kings 2 C. N. Phillips 9781622867721 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Back from the dead, Sadie is hungrier and more ruthless than ever. With a heart black as night and an itch...
What Was The Last Book You Read? The Celebrity Edition
What Was The Last Book You Read? The Celebrity Edition Troy Johnson Article Over the years we've published hundreds of interviews with celebrities. Each one is usually asked, what is now know as the...
Barbecue / Bootycandy (TCG Edition)
Barbecue / Bootycandy (TCG Edition) Robert O’Hara 9781559364959 Fiction Theatre Communications Group Theatre Communications Group "Searing and sensationally funny… As raw in its language and raucous i...
Marcus Garvey: Anti-Colonial Champion
Marcus Garvey: Anti-Colonial Champion Rupert Lewis 9780865430624 Nonfiction Africa World Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press This biography of Marcus Garvey documents the forging of his remar...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Last Interview: and Other Conversation
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Last Interview: and Other Conversation Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9781612194806 Nonfiction Melville House Melville House An intimate and lively collection of interviews with a ...
African American Church: Waking Up to God’s Missionary Call
African American Church: Waking Up to God’s Missionary Call Leonidas A. Johnson 9780878083480 Nonfiction William Carey Library Publishers William Carey Library Publishers In the pages of this book, Re...
Jim Crow’s Last Stand: Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts in Louisiana
Jim Crow’s Last Stand: Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts in Louisiana Thomas Aiello 9780807158999 Nonfiction LSU Press Louisiana State University Press The last remnant of the racist Redeemer agenda...
Intimations: Six Essays
Intimations: Six Essays Zadie Smith 9780593297612 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House Intimations captures the uneasiness of our modern moment as Smith reflects on the COVID-19 pandemic and ...
Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby
Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby Crystal Hubbard 9781600608919 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books The story of Jimmy Winkfield, one of horse racing’s all-time great jockeys and the last A...
Beyond the Rope
Beyond the Rope Karlos K. Hill 9781107044135 Nonfiction Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press Beyond the Rope is an interdisciplinary study that draws on narrative theory and cultural ...
Paradox Of Loyalty: An African American Response To The War On Terrorism
Paradox Of Loyalty: An African American Response To The War On Terrorism Julianne Malveaux, Regina Green and Gwendolyn Brooks 9780883782453 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press The terrorist...
Ida Mae
Ida Mae Delores Thornton Excerpt Ida Mae stumbled into the kitchen, careful not to wake Papa or Milan, as she climbed the back stairs. If I’m lucky, I can pour a bath and bandage my wounds and ...
Passing By Samaria
Passing By Samaria Sharon Ewell Foster 9780739408056 Fiction Multnomah Penguin Random House An inspirational read of racism, romance and religious conviction When the discovery of a schoolmate’s ly...
Last Word Productions
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Last Word Productions
Last Word Productions Last Word Productions Last Word Productions
Discover Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston
Discover Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston Author Interviews Doriel Inez Larrier "unpackages" the book, Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale...
Greene Response to “Their Eyes Were Reading Smut”
Greene Response to “Their Eyes Were Reading Smut” Brenda M. Greene Article Brenda M. Greene, Ph.D.,Professor of English Medgar Evers College, CUNY The Op-Ed Page 229 We...
Follow-Up Letters to Santa From Kids Who Never Got a Response
Follow-Up Letters to Santa From Kids Who Never Got a Response Tony Medina 9780940975750 Fiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. Every Christmas, millions of children wait impatiently for the arrival...
Kin: Rooted in Hope
Kin: Rooted in Hope Carole Boston Weatherford 9781665913621 Fiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. A powerful portrait of a Black family tree shaped by enslavement and freedom...
And It Don’t Stop: The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years
And It Don’t Stop: The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years Raquel Cepeda 9780571211593 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers In September 1979, there was a cosmic...
Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety
Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety Cara Page and Erica Woodland 9781623177140 Nonfiction North Atlantic Books North Atlantic Books A profou...
Animal IV: Last Rites (Volume 4)
Animal IV: Last Rites (Volume 4) K’wan 9780982492093 Fiction Write 2 Eat Concepts Write 2 Eat Concepts From the moment Animal’s former lover Red Sonja showed up on his doorstep, he knew trouble wouldn...
Erick S. Gray
Erick S. Gray NONE Erick S. Gray, an accomplished author since 1997, is known for his engaging mix of street style, comedy, and intricate plots. Born in Jamaica, Queens, his first book, Booty Call, w...
And God Created Woman
And God Created Woman Mika Miller 9780974298269 Fiction Ghettoheat Ghettoheat AND GOD CREATED WOMAN, a provocative, sophisticated story that chronicles the evolutionary journey of four flawed African-...
Let Love Have the Last Word: A Memoir
Let Love Have the Last Word: A Memoir Common 9781501133169 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. The inspiring New York Times bestseller from Common—the Grammy Award, Academy Award, and Golden...
Before the Streetlights Come on: Black America’s Urgent Call for Climate Solutions
Before the Streetlights Come on: Black America’s Urgent Call for Climate Solutions Heather McTeer Toney 9781506478623 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media Climate change. Two words that are quickly b...
A Matter Of Life Or Death, Why Black Men Must Save Black Boys In America’s Public Schools
A Matter Of Life Or Death, Why Black Men Must Save Black Boys In America’s Public Schools Michael W. Nellums and Walter Milton Jr. 9780989850407 Fiction One-L Group One-L Group A Matter of Life and De...
Why We Shouldn’t Call Our Ancestors Slaves
Why We Shouldn’t Call Our Ancestors Slaves LaRue Nedd 9780985689605 Nonfiction FNNC Publishing FNNC Publishing There was a time when everyone thought that the world was flat.Because we have been bomba...
Matthew A. Cherry
Matthew A. Cherry 0000000500418922 Former NFL wide receiver, Matthew A. Cherry, transitioned into filmmaking after his retirement in 2007. He's known for directing over 20 music videos, his feature f...
Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter
Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter Michael G. Long and Yohuru Williams 9780374389956 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers Macmillan Publishers...
Before the Streetlights Come on: Black America’s Urgent Call for Climate Solutions
Before the Streetlights Come on: Black America’s Urgent Call for Climate Solutions Robert Fleming Book Review As I received Heather McTeer Toney’s new book on climate solutions, I had also read...
Last of the Lions: An African American Journey in Memoir
Last of the Lions: An African American Journey in Memoir Clarence B. Jones and Stuart Connelly 9781952485930 Nonfiction Redhawk Publications Redhawk Publications Last of the Lions is two histories wov...
All the Places We Call Home
All the Places We Call Home Patrice Gopo 9781546012665 Fiction Worthy Kids Hachette Book Group Fall in love with this lyrically written and lushly illustrated exploration of identity and home that cel...
Call Us What We Carry: Poems
Call Us What We Carry: Poems Amanda Gorman 9780593465066 Poetry Viking Books Penguin Random House The breakout poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet...
Lucile H. Bluford and the Kansas City Call: Activist Voice for Social Justice
Lucile H. Bluford and the Kansas City Call: Activist Voice for Social Justice Sheila Brooks and Clint C. Wilson II 9781498535632 Nonfiction Lexington Books Lexington Books This book examines the journ...
Tyler Merritt
Tyler Merritt NONE Tyler Merritt is a multi-talented actor, musician, comedian, and activist known for The Tyler Merritt Project. With a career spanning 20 years, he has worked in TV shows like ABC's...
I Call Myself An Artist: Writings by and About Charles Johnson
I Call Myself An Artist: Writings by and About Charles Johnson Rudolph P. Byrd 9780253335418 Nonfiction Indiana University Press Indiana University Press Charles Johnson is one of the most talented ar...
James Baldwin The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
James Baldwin The Last Interview: and Other Conversations James Baldwin 9781612194004 Nonfiction Melville House Melville House Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwi...
The Last Dreamwalker
The Last Dreamwalker Rita Woods 9781250805614 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers From Hurston/Wright Legacy Award-winning author Rita Woods, The Last Dreamwalker tells the story of two women, separate...
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” Zora Neale Hurston and Deborah G. Plant 9780062748201 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins A major literary event: a never-before-published work from the aut...
The Last Black Unicorn
The Last Black Unicorn Tiffany Haddish 9781501181825 Nonfiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From stand-up comedian, actress, and breakout star of Girls Trip, Tiffany...
The Last Days Of Ptolemy Grey
The Last Days Of Ptolemy Grey Walter Mosley 9781594485503 Fiction Riverhead Hardcover Penguin Random House A masterful, moving novel about age, memory, and family from one of the true literary icons ...
Juneteenth: Our Day of Freedom
Juneteenth: Our Day of Freedom Sharon Dennis Wyeth 9780593434789 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Some call it Freedom Day; some call it Emancipation Day; some call it...
The Wake Up Call
The Wake Up Call Robert Fleming Book Review With a focus on the young at heart, personal finance expert Ash Exantus aka Ash Cash employs the themes of master rapper-businessman Jay Z’s classic ...
Layla, the Last Black Unicorn
Layla, the Last Black Unicorn Tiffany Haddish and Jessica Gibson 9780063113879 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins From beloved comedian, actress, and New York Times bestselling author Tiffany Haddish...
Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America
Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America Sylviane A. Diouf 9780195311044 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press In...
Forever
Forever RAWSISTAZ Book Review The title of McCann’s new book, Forever, made me wonder what really lasts forever, does life, love or even death? And why do we exert so much energy trying to make...
Last Chance Live!
Last Chance Live! Helena Haywoode Henry 9780593625309 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House Squid Game meets Dear Justyce in an explosive young adult novel about a teenage girl on death row...
If the Creek Don’t Rise: My Life Out West with the Last Black Widow of the Civil War
If the Creek Don’t Rise: My Life Out West with the Last Black Widow of the Civil War Rita Williams 9780151011544 Nonfiction Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Houghton Mifflin Harcourt When Rita Williams was ...
The Wake Up Call: Financial Inspiration Learned from 4:44
The Wake Up Call: Financial Inspiration Learned from 4:44 Ash Cash 9780983448686 Nonfiction 1Brick Publishing 1Brick Publishing The Wake Up Call: Financial Inspiration Learned from 4:44 + A Step by St...
The Last Count of Monte Cristo
The Last Count of Monte Cristo Ayize Jama-Everett 9781419745508 Fiction Harry N. Abrams Harry N. Abrams An Afrofuturist, fully colored, illustrated graphic-novel retelling of Alexandre Dumas's cl...
Invisible Life: Special edition
Invisible Life: Special edition E. Lynn Harris 9780385494632 Fiction Doubleday Penguin Random House Available at last, E. Lynn Harris’s beloved first novel in a hardcover edition.Just a few years ago,...
Abiodun Oyewole
Abiodun Oyewole NONE Abiodun Oyewole is a pioneering poet, teacher, and founding member of the influential American music and spoken-word group, The Last Poets. With a rich contribution to Hip-Hop's ...
If You Call My Name: The Collected Memoirs of Black Enslaved People
If You Call My Name: The Collected Memoirs of Black Enslaved People Frederick Douglass, Solomon Northup, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, Olaudah Equiano 9781250281401 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Pre...
The Last Mirror on the Left
The Last Mirror on the Left Lamar Giles 9780358129417 Fiction Versify Houghton Mifflin Harcourt b>In this new Legendary Alston Boys adventure from Edgar-nominated author Lamar Giles, Otto and Sheed mu...
The Last Love Letter
The Last Love Letter Robert Fleming Book Review Amanda Easton, the author of The Last Love Letter, has a history of letter writing going back to her college days when she sometimes said the...
Final Call Foundation
Final Call Foundation Nation of Islam Final Call Foundation
Why We Shouldn't Call Our Ancestors Slaves - LaRue Nedd
Why We Shouldn't Call Our Ancestors Slaves - LaRue Nedd Author Interviews LaRue Nedd of FNNC Publishing on his book, Why We Shouldn’t Call Our Ancestors Slaves, at WWSCOAS during the Macrus Garv...
The Last Two Crayons
The Last Two Crayons Leah Freeman-Haskin 9781773066233 Fiction Groundwood Books Anansi Press Sienna looks forward to drawing a picture for her school’s spring art show, until she ends up with the last...
The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron
The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron Howard Bryant 9780375424854 Nonfiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House In the thirty-four years since his retirement, Henry (Hank) Aaron’s reputation has only ...
The Last Love Letter
The Last Love Letter Amanda Easton 9781424198511 Fiction PublishAmerica PublishAmerica The Last Love Letter is the raw, provocative and inspiring story of a young woman’s struggle to reconcile herself...
The Last of the African Kings
The Last of the African Kings Maryse Conde 9780803214897 Fiction University of Nebraska Press University of Nebraska Press The Last of the African Kings follows the wayward fortunes of a noble African...
Last Serious Thing: A Season at the Bullfights
Last Serious Thing: A Season at the Bullfights Bruce Schoenfeld 9780671727482 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Bullfighting is the vivid focus of this absorbing portrait of Spain—a n...
Last First Kiss
Last First Kiss Julian Winters 9781250326263 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers “The stuff romance dreams are made of.” — Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author Sparks fly ...
The Last Friend
The Last Friend Tahar Ben Jelloun 9780143038481 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House Renowned for his compeling , humane portraits of everyday Arab lives, Tahar Ben Jelloun has affirmed his plac...
Queen Latifah: The Last Holiday Interview
Queen Latifah: The Last Holiday Interview Kam Williams Interview Born Dana Elaine Owens, but better known as Queen Latifah, the First Lady of Hip-Hop was also the first rapper to land an Os...